Subject Tag: favorites

Baby’s Sunday Salon, November 9

Filed under: Picture Books, Reading Journal, Reviews

In addition to the board books I usually read my son, I’ve also been reading a number of picture books with him this month. Because he’s still only a year old, he doesn’t pay much attention past the first few pages, but I’m having fun revisiting some old classics. Now I know what he should [...]

Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Filed under: Reviews, Short Stories

After reading Edgar Allan Poe last week, I thought I’d stay in the same era and read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories. To my delight, many of Hawthorne’s stories perfectly fit the “gothic” theme of Halloween in a style that I loved. Even though I dislike of being “scared,” these stories were again the perfect amount of [...]

Book Blogs Rebecca Reads and Appreciates

Filed under: Blogging Miscellany, Meme

Book Blogger Appreciation Week is underway! Today we’re asked what blogs weren’t nominated that should have been. I’m only a new book blogger myself, so I know I miss a lot of great blogs. All of those that I’m subscribed to are in my far right sidebar. (I hope I haven’t missed any? It’s been [...]

Favorite Author: Sandra Boynton’s Picture Books

Filed under: Picture Books, Reviews

Sandra Boynton’s children’s books are new classics. I first discovered her delightful picture books via my sister-in-law, who had an entire shelf of Boynton’s books for my nephew. Now, with my own little boy, I’m really enjoying them. Her books all claim “serious silliness” on the back cover. I’d agree: we all enjoy the light-hearted [...]

Bookworms Carnival: You Are Never Too Old

Filed under: Blogging Miscellany, Carnivals

The August Bookworms Carnival is up at The 3 R’s. This month’s theme is “You Are Never Too Old.”
I submitted my review of The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne.  I love Winnie-the-Pooh, and I look forward to rereading it many times with my son!
I also wrote a post recently about the [...]

I was dressing my 10-month-old son on his bedroom floor the other evening when he started reaching up. I saw his fingers brush the edge of the orange cover of Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, which was on the edge of the second-lowest shelf. Once he was fully clothed in pajamas, I sat him [...]

Author Weekly Geeks Answers

Filed under: Blogging Miscellany, Meme

Answers
to Sunday’s post
1. (a) A.A. Milne (b) Simon Winchester (c) Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Guy de Maupassant
3. (a) Amy Tan (b) Terry Tempest Williams (c) Sherman Alexie (d) Robert Hass
4. Robert Hass
6. Winston Churchill
The winner was gag who guessed all correct (!) except Terry Tempest Williams. NIce job! And nice job for the rest of you.
Go visit [...]

Sick Day and Author Weekly Geeks

Filed under: Blogging Miscellany, Meme, Pondering Reading, Writing about Reading

My husband, my ten-month-old, and I have all been sick this weekend. To my surprise, I couldn’t bring myself to finish my book and post the review as I’d planned. Every time I started to read, my eyes would close. I also usually read a book aloud to my son as he plays and [...]

Childhood Reads

Filed under: Meme, Picture Books, Reviews

For this week, Dewey suggested we reflect on a book from our childhood. I could write about any number of books, but here is one that somehow, I haven’t forgotten, although I haven’t read it since third grade.

Alexander McCall-Smith

Filed under: Fiction, Reviews

Favorite Authors
When I was a child, I would go to the library on my bike with a backpack full of already-consumed books, return them, and get another full backpack full of to-be-read books. Sometimes I’d go through a series, reading every single one as they were available at the library. Other times I went through [...]

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